"Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!"
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"If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough?"
"Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science."
"I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait."
"I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"
"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."
"The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs."
"The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument."
"... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned."
"Infinite are the arguments of mages."
"There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact."
"A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands."
"Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct."
"Argument weak; speak loudly!"
"I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful."
"Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads."
"They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener."
"The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do."
"It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves."
"Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results."